Sunday, February 19, 2006

GOOD NEWS / BAD NEWS: The good news is that the star that makes best currently identified candidate for an extra-solar system capable of supporting life is only 26 light years away.

The bad news is that the Patent And Trademark Office will not grant coverage for your warp drive design until you produce a working model. ...or is that good news too?

General relativistic hat tip to Dennis Crouch of Patently-O, and to the superhuman clearinghouse for this kind of fun stuff that is Slashdot.

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